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School and Society: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 4/e

Stephen E. Tozer, The University of Illinois, Chicago
Paul C. Violas
Guy Senese, Northern Arizona University

Conclusion

Learning Objectives

Among the objectives that Chapter 15 seeks to achieve are these:

Students should be able to explain the sense in which the family, the community, the school, and the peer group provide four different cultural contexts for children and youth.

Students should be able to explain the meaning of "youth culture" and be able to assess why it is important for an educator to understand it.

Students should be able to discuss whether family culture and local community culture are different ways of referring to the same thing and the differences between the two.

Students should be able to provide examples of how youth culture intersects with the local community culture.

Students should be able to discuss why it is important to work with the families of their students.

Students should be able to identify obstacles that may impede productive school-family interactions and how teachers can make these interactions more productive.

Students should be able to evaluate the kinds of parental involvement that they believe are the most important for teachers to promote.

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